HMC Helicopter Service LLC

HMC Helicopter Service LLC, a small business based in Homestead, Florida, provides Type III helicopter flight services to the Department of the Interior and related federal agencies as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, operating fully contractor-owned and maintained aircraft for wildland fire suppression, prescribed burns, search and rescue, resource monitoring, and aerial applications.

HMC is a for-profit limited liability company competing exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards are prime). The vendor operates under NAICS 481211 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation) and PSC V199, with 296 of its 324 recent awards classified under the primary NAICS and the vast majority under small business set-aside designations. The company's footprint spans 324 awards with combined potential value of $165.5 million and combined obligated dollars of $29.2 million since 1999, though award volume has declined in recent years—from 19 awards in 2022 to 6 in 2026 year to date.

Customer concentration sits almost entirely within the Department of the Interior. The top five customer offices and regions account for 96% of combined potential value: the Interior Business Center (18 awards, $64.1 million), the Office of Policy Management and Budget (4 awards, $58.9 million), the National Park Service Southeast Region (152 awards, $27.6 million), the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (17 awards, $4.9 million), and the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (3 awards, $2.7 million). By award count, the NPS Southeast Region dominates at 152 awards—representing 73% of total award volume and $27.6 million in potential value—reflecting HMC's operational concentration in Florida and the southeastern United States. Geographic performance spans Homestead and Palmetto, Florida, as primary bases, with subordinate operations in Everglades City and Miami, Florida; Lufkin, Texas; Tucson, Arizona; and Folkston, Georgia.

HMC holds four active IDIQs with the Department of the Interior. The On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services 2022–2027 multiple-award IDIQ ($49.5 million ceiling, 39 task orders, $3.1 million combined potential value) is the largest vehicle and enables the National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management to issue task orders nationwide with geographic concentration in Florida and the Southeast. HMC also holds three single-award indefinite delivery contracts: an EU Helicopter Flight Services contract at Everglades National Park valued at $2.05 million (May 1, 2022–April 30, 2027), a newly awarded EU Helicopter Flight Services contract for Everglades, Biscayne, and Dry Tortugas National Parks and Big Cypress National Preserve valued at $5.0 million (January 1, 2026–December 31, 2030), and an EU Pilot Services contract at Everglades National Park valued at $181,250 (expired April 30, 2024). The vendor also operates under the legacy DOI On-Call Helicopter Flight Services 2017–2018 IDIQ (68 task orders, $3.9 million potential value) and smaller vehicle structures. Representative recent work includes a $794,072.93 firm fixed-price delivery order from the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region issued April 11, 2025 for fiscal year 2025 fire operations; a $350,250 exclusive-use helicopter delivery order from the National Park Service Southeast Region issued May 1, 2026 for Everglades National Park operations; and a $60,750 order from the U.S. Geological Survey issued May 1, 2026 for Everglades hydrology monitoring in the Miami area.

Activity has contracted in recent years. Awards per year declined from 19 in 2022 to 6 in 2026 year to date. Eight awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.3 million, representing moderate recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoicing across the limited service-contract records in the dataset totaled $954 thousand in FY2022 and FY2023 combined (FY2022: $537 thousand, FY2023: $416 thousand), representing a small slice of the vendor's total federal helicopter services revenue, which is dominated by task orders under the large IDIQs. SCI-reportable federal service delivery ranged from 2.3 FTEs in FY2022 to 2.2 FTEs in FY2023, with government-paid hourly rates on those SCI contracts running a median of $102.58/hr (10th percentile $93.29/hr, 90th percentile $111.87/hr). The vendor performs all work in-house with no sub-engagement across SCI-reportable prime contracts. HMC's federal footprint is entirely concentrated on Type III helicopter operations for Department of the Interior land management and emergency response missions in the southeastern United States and subordinate locations, with no diversification into defense, civilian IT, or non-aviation service lines.